Version 3 Overview
IT Service Lifecycle
Relationships
Main Description

ITIL® version 3 was released in May 2007.  The focus of this series is the lifecycle of services.  The core ITIL v2 Service Management processes remain in version 3, but are augmented by other processes to emphasize the full lifecycle of services. The stages of the service lifecycle (which are also the names of the 5 core books of ITIL v3) are shown in the following table. The bulleted items in the table identify many of the processes and practices within those stages. To examine how these processes map to ITUP processes, click on the title of one of the lifecycle stages in the table. 

  • Financial Management
  • Service Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
  • Demand Management
  • Service Catalog Management
  • Service Level Management
  • Capacity Management
  • Availability Management
  • IT Service Continuity Management
  • Information Security Management
  • Supplier Management
  • Service Asset and Configuration Management
  • Change Management
  • Release and Deployment Management
  • Service Validation and Testing
  • Transition Planning and Support
  • Knowledge Management
  • Evaluation
  • Event Management
  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Request Fulfillment
  • Access Management
  • 7-Step Improvement Process
  • Service Reporting
  • Service Measurement
  • Return on Investment for CSI
Service Life Cycle Stages

In addition, additional materials are also a part of the library.  These include:

  • Introduction
  • Key Element Guides
  • Multiple topic-specific complementary guides
  • Integrated service lifecycle model

To see the table showing which tools can be used to implement the ITIL v3 processes, click here.

For more information, see the OGC site concerning ITIL v3. 

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